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Hi chaps,
I need advice from experienced guys, fitters would be ideal, rather than 'my stoves great- get one of mine'..
Ive moved from A) a small old stone cotswold cttg with a diddy 4.5kW franco-belge.. to B) a similarly sized stone wales cttg with a 7kW Efel. On face you might say ~ similar results, but alas not: chalk & cheese. Multifuels.
1stly I'm throwing over 2x the logs on here, burning 12 good sized logs split in two every 3 hrs.. about two big heavy baskets full every nights' (all I can afford to) run from 7-10pm. £90 a month. Sheesh. Understandable if in a hall with huge stove etc.. but its a 2 up one larg'ish down: a small'ish cttg, just me.
My chimney is a well made, pummice-lined 10", my 5" flue from stove (top) 3ft up to start of chimney. My stove can get nice & warm.. but only at vast effort, ramming it to get it to run flat out (basically, constantly). I'm up & down continually & often resort to a shovel of coal to 'turbo' proceedings, such as the wood we get around here is nigh on impossible to get top notch stuff. Its very hard to get a cosy house unless running the thing so damn flat out as to be rude. My old stove: 6 logs would quietly burn away & linger, just 2 logs on at a time per hr, minimal efforts, no fanfare- the whole cttg cosy as should be. Goddmit.
My old cttg I long for (stovewise): my old log source too. I'm going to try a kiln-dried cubic metre (also £90) to see if this is comparable to my current log source.. but an expensive experiment if I get well over 1.5x as many logs from current chap. It might equate. I shouldn't be spending £90 a month on logs, surely, freezing my butt of all day waiting for my 3 hrs per night.
I don't have a chimney liner, as told my pummice lined CH is in good condition & prob better too. It draws well, but I do get wind coming down the flue when it blows/ most often here top of a wee valley. Would a steel 5" liner dropped down stop any of this wind 'back flush' as I will call it? Im wondering if this is turbo'ing the fire, causing a runaway effect, leaching heat up the CH.
If I knew what was causing so much effort & cost, for only minimal results.. Id go that route. But I cannot establish what the cause is. IE Ive entertianed the idea of a replacement stove many times, but what's the point if I spend £1k & the results are the same?
thoughts pleaee, thanks SC
I need advice from experienced guys, fitters would be ideal, rather than 'my stoves great- get one of mine'..
Ive moved from A) a small old stone cotswold cttg with a diddy 4.5kW franco-belge.. to B) a similarly sized stone wales cttg with a 7kW Efel. On face you might say ~ similar results, but alas not: chalk & cheese. Multifuels.
1stly I'm throwing over 2x the logs on here, burning 12 good sized logs split in two every 3 hrs.. about two big heavy baskets full every nights' (all I can afford to) run from 7-10pm. £90 a month. Sheesh. Understandable if in a hall with huge stove etc.. but its a 2 up one larg'ish down: a small'ish cttg, just me.
My chimney is a well made, pummice-lined 10", my 5" flue from stove (top) 3ft up to start of chimney. My stove can get nice & warm.. but only at vast effort, ramming it to get it to run flat out (basically, constantly). I'm up & down continually & often resort to a shovel of coal to 'turbo' proceedings, such as the wood we get around here is nigh on impossible to get top notch stuff. Its very hard to get a cosy house unless running the thing so damn flat out as to be rude. My old stove: 6 logs would quietly burn away & linger, just 2 logs on at a time per hr, minimal efforts, no fanfare- the whole cttg cosy as should be. Goddmit.
My old cttg I long for (stovewise): my old log source too. I'm going to try a kiln-dried cubic metre (also £90) to see if this is comparable to my current log source.. but an expensive experiment if I get well over 1.5x as many logs from current chap. It might equate. I shouldn't be spending £90 a month on logs, surely, freezing my butt of all day waiting for my 3 hrs per night.
I don't have a chimney liner, as told my pummice lined CH is in good condition & prob better too. It draws well, but I do get wind coming down the flue when it blows/ most often here top of a wee valley. Would a steel 5" liner dropped down stop any of this wind 'back flush' as I will call it? Im wondering if this is turbo'ing the fire, causing a runaway effect, leaching heat up the CH.
If I knew what was causing so much effort & cost, for only minimal results.. Id go that route. But I cannot establish what the cause is. IE Ive entertianed the idea of a replacement stove many times, but what's the point if I spend £1k & the results are the same?
thoughts pleaee, thanks SC
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